When Victoria inaugurated Queen Hedvig Eleonora's jubilee year 2015's exhibition at the Gripsholm Castle on 13th May, she met a girl, Issie, who had wanted to meet her. Issie's grandfather was an invited guest and he took Issie with him to meet Victoria.http://diemperdidi.se/wp-content/upl...d-img_0237.jpg

Elisabeth Toll is born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. Before becoming a photographer, she studied archaeology, history, anthropology and law. After moving to Paris and assisting various photographers, she started on her own with a series of pictures taken of the French Foreign Legion. Since then she has been doing both commercial and personal work, focusing mainly on fashion, portraiture and landscape. Lives and works between Stockholm and Paris.

Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, best known for his iconic sculpture of a revolver with a knotted barrel displayed outside the UN headquarters in New York, has died aged 81, Swedish officials said on Wednesday. He designed the oversized bronze Colt Magnum .357 with the knotted barrel, entitled "Non Violence", as a symbol of peace after the assassination of his friend John Lennon, the former Beatle, who was shot dead by Mark Chapman.
Luxembourg, which had acquired one of the early versions of the work, donated the sculpture to the United Nations in 1988.
Other versions are on display in a number of cities, including Stockholm, Beijing, Cape Town and Lausanne, the Swiss town where the artist lived for a long time.Sculptor Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd dies at 81 - The Local